pot-legalize it? it would cut down on imprisonment and the government could make a pretty penny taxing it too.

Question

what do you think about it? pros cons?

regarding the comment about pot and traffic accidents the only time i ever hear about a pot-head being involved is when they are killed walking to the store to get munchies and the drunk driver runs off the road and kills him. true story

Answer 1

It would make sense wouldn't it? Alas, the things that make the most sense will never happen here!! We are governed by a bunch of old, conservative, Republicans who think the whole world will go up in chaos if people are allowed to have too much fun. Little do they know that the tighter they try to hold their people, the more likely they will stray. In other countries where the laws are more lienient, the people respect their government and seem to live better and less crazy lives.

And to those who say we have enough problems with alcohol, I'm sorry to tell you, people already smoke pot and drive and function in society without killing people (anymore than the average person would anyways). It may not be legal, but it hasn't stopped anyone from smoking it. So, that theory isn't going to work. Dig deeper.

Answer 2

I've been saying this for 20 years now. Unfortunately religious zealots can't see past their nose and allow it to be legalized. It could be taxed, and save a lot of money and lives on the ridiculous "war on drugs" that will never be won.

So called experts will shout "it's a gateway drug", but this is bull, the only reason it is a gateway drug is because it is lumped in with the rest of the narcotics, so people figure they are all similar and so why not try something else? People don't run out and try LSD or coke because they liked the effect beer or gin had on them. Alcohol is a drug just like the rest, but since it is legal and separate, it doesn't cause people to move on to other drugs.

Answer 3

nicely if we take the repeal of prohibition (legalization of alcohol), over the years, the form of bootleggers ran out as a manner to communicate. Now alcohol is merely approximately thoroughly run by using criminal agencies and the administrative. So do i think of that legalizing pot might have an result on the cartels? specific and no. The cartels will consistently have a "bypass-to" drug to sell and smuggle be it cocaine, heroin, besides the fact that. yet I do think of that crime regarding pot will at last decrease until this is going to relatively will become what alcohol is now. Plus taxing weed will deliver interior a similar form of earnings that alcohol does now.

Answer 4

Yes, it occurs to me that everyone in prison for marijuana offenses(all of which are non-violent) could be released, cost us a lot less money and we'd have room for the much more dangerous sex offenders and violent criminals.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - A founding father of the Reagan Revolution has put his John Hancock on a pro-pot report.

Milton Friedman leads a list of more than 500 economists from around the U.S. who today will publicly endorse a Harvard University economist's report on the costs of marijuana prohibition and the potential revenue gains from the U.S. government instead legalizing it and taxing its sale. Ending prohibition enforcement would save $7.7 billion in combined state and federal spending, the report says, while taxation would yield up to $6.2 billion a year.

Answer 5

It's a great idea that for some reason will never happen. It's less harmful than ciggarettes or alcohol. it has real medicinal uses, it can be used to make rope and cloth, etc. I can not for the life of me figure out why the government will not legalize it, control it, and tax it. It makes sense on every possible level.

Answer 6

It should be legalized along the lines of home brew beer. You should be able to grow it for your personal use. One or two plants would be enough. Then anyone caught with more than that could be charged for possesion with intent to sell. Forget letting them set it up where they can tax it. We're taxed bad enough as is these days.

Answer 7

I think it should be legalized and properly controlled. It is a very good pain substitute for those suffering terminal illnesses such as Cancer and those in chronic pain where regular alopathic drugs are no longer suitable.

Answer 8

It will never work, because the goverment will want to tax it all and the government cannot control what people grow in their own homes or yards!

Answer 9

Sure, why don't you go ahead and make it legal.
That won't cause any problems by making it socially acceptable or anything.

If it did, there would be a lot of alcoholics, because alcohol is legal and socially acceptable....

What do you mean there ARE a lot of alcoholics????

Answer 10

The government makes more money keeping drugs illegal than they would legalizing it.